You’ve seen it growing on your fruit, eating your leftovers, and maybe even hiding in your basement. Mold smells bad, it’s creepy-looking, and even if you don’t know much about it, you probably know enough to keep it as far away from your mouth as possible. But what would happen […]
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What if you had the power to control things without touching them? What if you could use your mind for anything from bending spoons to lifting cars, and even stopping bullets right in front of you? What would be the limits to what your brain could do? Since the early […]
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If you could combine your genes with any animal in the world, which one would you choose? Would you want the power of a wolf? The agility of a cat? Or the wings of a bird? Well, you’d better make your mind up quickly, because this technology is right around […]
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What if you could shrink yourself down to the size of 1 mm (0.04 in), about the size of a frog’s egg? Actually no, there too many creepy crawly predators, so let’s go smaller. What if you shrunk to 10 micrometers (0.0004 in), the size of an animal cell? That’s […]
Care to take a tour inside your own body? No, I don’t suggest you do capsule endoscopy, you know, the one that takes pictures inside your digestive tract. Or an x-ray. Let’s take the most sophisticated, hypothetical tour, where you would be your own guide. Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-we-could-look-inside-our-bodies/ Subscribe […]
Most of us don’t get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. But what if you went a whole week without sleeping? What would happen to your body? And how quickly would you start to hallucinate without sleep? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-you-didnt-sleep-for-a-week/ 00:00 No sleep for a week 01:00 […]
